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How Severance Interrogates The Modern Aesthetic
There might be spoilers in here. But I need to talk about the furniture.
Beauty Across the Board: Rich Fulcher, UX Director
Rich Fulcher on game design, UX systems, and beautifying Google products
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📚 (Don’t?) Read This: Bring Out Your Design Dead
No matter what’s happening, the design community cyclically experiences its own emotional, intellectual, or technological “death.”
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📚 Read This: Fictional Computers and Their Themes
A good reminder that less about the current technological moment is as new as we sometimes think.
☕️ Design Space and the Generative Spectrum
Untangling some of the abstract and ambiguous possibilities of designing with AI.
How Severance Interrogates The Modern Aesthetic
There might be spoilers in here. But I need to talk about the furniture.
Beauty Across the Board: Rich Fulcher, UX Director
Rich Fulcher on game design, UX systems, and beautifying Google products
☕️ Letting Go of Geometry (Again)
How type design made me see all the “fixed” logos on social media in a new, dimmer light.
Breaking Silos (and Metaphors): Adrian Secord, ‘Roving Engineer,’ Google
The complexities of large-scale design systems and how designers and engineers can find common ground.
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The Family Reunion
There’s something to be said for the preservation of interaction, ideas, and execution.
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📚 Read This: “How humans became microplastic” on UnHerd
Plastic promised a world in which our inventive capabilities would be unbound and infinite. It’s easy to hear an echo (or a warning voice) of those proclamations today.
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Unpacking “Craft” in the Software Interface
The more I see craft mentioned as a power of design, the more I feel that a working definition is urgently needed.
Code, Creativity, Performance: Will Larche, Engineering Manager, Google
Engineering as the "study of making choices."